Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Parazoa > Phylum Porifera > Subphylum Cellularia > Class Demospongiae > Subclass Heteroscleromorpha > Order Clionaida > Family Clionaidae > Genus Cliothosa

Cliothosa hancocki (Topsent, 1888)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Vioa Nardo, 1839

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Cliothosa*	Topsent, 1905	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Thoosa hancocci*	Topsent, 1888	orthographic variant
*Cliothosa ramosa*	(Lendenfeld, 1898)	synonym

Literature

additional source	Pulitzer-Finali, G. (1983). A collection of Mediterranean Demospongiae (Porifera) with, in appendix, a list of the Demospongiae hitherto recorded from the Mediterranean Sea. Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale Giacomo Doria. 84: 445-621.
additional source	Topsent, E. (1934). Etude d'Eponges littorales du Golfe de Gabès. Bulletin de la Station d'Aquiculture et de Pêche de Castiglione. 1932(2):71-102.
additional source	Vacelet, J.; Vasseur, P.; Lévi, C. (1976). Spongiaires de la pente externe des récifs coralliens de Tuléar (Sud-Ouest de Madagascar). Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (A, Zoologie). 49:1-116, pls I-X.
additional source	Van Soest, R.W.M. (2001). Porifera, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 85-103.
additional source	Ben Mustapha, K; Zarrouk, S.; Souissi, A.; El Abed, A. (2003). Diversité des Démosponges Tunisiennes. Bulletin Institut national des Sciences et Technologies de la mer de Salammbô. 30, 55-78.
additional source	Desqueyroux, R. (1976). Démosponges signalées pour la Région des Canaux du Chili. Cahiers de Biologie Marine. 17 (1): 93-109.
additional source	Scalera-Liaci, L.; Sciscioli, M.; Fiordiponti, F. (1976). Distribuzione dei Poriferi del mar Piccolo di Taronto. Oebalia. 2, 3-19.
additional source	Lévi, C. (1965). Spongiaires récoltés par l'expédition israélienne dans le sud de la Mer Rouge en 1962. In: Israel South Red Sea Expedition, 1962, Report 13. Sea Fisheries Research Station Haifa Bulletin. 39, 3-27.
additional source	Schönberg, C.H.L. (2000). Bioeroding sponges common to the Central Great Barrier Reef: descriptions of three new species, two new records, and additions to two previously described species. Senckenbergiana maritima. 30(3-6): 161-221.
additional source	Pulitzer-Finali, G. (1993). A collection of marine sponges from East Africa. Annales Museo Civico Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria". 89: 247-350.
additional source	Rützler, K. (1965). Systematik und Ökologie der Poriferen aus Litoral-Schattengebieten der Nordadria. Zeitschrift für Morphologie und Ökologie der Tiere. 55(1): 1-82.
additional source	Saritas, M.Ü. (1972). A preliminary study on the silicious Sponge (Porifera) Fauna of Engeceli Limani in the Gulf of Izmir (Aegean Sea). Scientific reports of the Faculty of Science, Ege University. 143, 1-25 (in Turkish).
source of synonymy	Rützler, K. (2002 [2004]). Family Clionaidae D'Orbigny, 1851. Pp. 173-185. In: Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers, New York, 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version).
source of synonymy	Rützler, K. (2002). Family Clionaidae D'Orbigny, 1851. Pp. 173-185. In: Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. 2 volumes. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers, New York, 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version).

Genbank

Citation

de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez, B.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Cárdenas, P.; Díaz, M.-C.; Dohrmann, M.; Downey, R.; Goodwin, C.; Hajdu, E.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Kelly, M.; Klautau, M.; Lim, S.C.; Manconi, R.; Morrow, C.; Pinheiro, U.; Pisera, A.B.; Ríos, P.; Rützler, K.; Schönberg, C.; Turner, T.; Vacelet, J.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Xavier, J. (2025). World Porifera Database. Cliothosa hancocki (Topsent, 1888). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:134147